1 Timothy 5:9
Let none be enrolled as a widow under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,
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- 1 Timothy 3:2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;
- Luke 2:36–37 And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Asher (she was of a great age, having lived with a husband seven years from her virginity, and she had been a widow even unto fourscore and four years), who departed not from the temple, worshipping with fastings and supplications night and day.
- 1 Timothy 5:11 But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;